Religion: No Smiles for Cain

The Vatican was not happy about Nikita Khrushchev's glad-handing
barnstorm through the U.S., opposed the proposed (and now postponed)
trip of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi to Russia. Last week
tough-minded, conservative Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, secretary of the
Congregation of the Holy Office, took the occasion of a Mass before a
group of refugees from Communist countries to deliver some hard words.

"No one desires peace more than you who have felt the lacerations of
war," he said. "[But] just as Cain cannot murder Abel without protest,
as entire nations cannot be held in slavery...